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Remembering Joseph M. Hendrie
Joseph M. Hendrie
To those of us who knew Joe, even prior to his appointment as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it is an understatement to say that he was a larger-than-life member of the nuclear science and technology enterprise. He was best known to the broader community for two major accomplishments: the design and construction of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the creation of the standard review plan (SRP) for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
In addition to the products of these endeavors becoming major fundaments to their respective communities, they were uniquely Joe. The safety analysis report for the HFBR was written essentially single-handedly by him. This was true of the SRP as well, which became the key safety review document for the NRC as it performed safety reviews for the growing number of power reactor applications in the United States. His deep technical knowledge of nuclear engineering and his extraordinary management skills made this possible.
Ahmad Al Rashdan, Shawn St. Germain
Nuclear Technology | Volume 205 | Number 8 | August 2019 | Pages 1062-1074
Rapid Communication – Special section on Big Data for Nuclear Power Plants | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1610637
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The operations and maintenance monitoring of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in the United States is reliant on manual activities supplying information to a human decision-making process. Several manually collected labor-intensive processes generate information that is not typically used beyond the intended target for collecting that information. The industry has recognized the benefits of both reducing labor-intensive tasks by automating them and increasing the fidelity of the information collected to enable advanced remote monitoring of NPPs using data-driven decision making. This requires developing new means to acquire data from the various data sources of an NPP. While some sources already exist in a digital form, others are collected manually, summarized through conclusive statements, or not collected at all. This paper describes 15 sources of data at an NPP and methods to migrate the data collection from a manual and analog data form to an automated and digital data form that increases the data fidelity in time and space. Three states of data collection methods are described for each data source. The states describe a base state for how the data are currently being collected, a modern state for a more efficient method of collecting data that has not yet been implemented, and a state of the art for an advanced method of collecting data that is not yet ready for deployment.